Legislative
Research Commission

Minutes
of the<MeetNo1>517th Meeting

of the 2005 Interim

<MeetMDY1>December 7, 2005

The<MeetNo2>517th meeting of the Legislative Research
Commission was held on<Day>Wednesday,<MeetMDY2>December 7, 2005, at<MeetTime>1:30 PM, in<Room>Room
111 of the Capitol Annex. Senator David L Williams, Chair,
called the meeting to order, and the secretary called the roll.

Senator Williams called the meeting to order and the
secretary called the roll. There being a quorum present, Senator Williams
called for a motion to approve the minutes of the October 5, 2005, meeting;
accept items A. through J. under Staff and Committee Reports; refer prefiled
bills and administrative regulations as indicated and approve items C. and D.
under New Business; accept and refer as indicated items A. through BB. under
Communications; and approve Resolutions A. through F. A motion was made by
Senator Seum and seconded by Representative Clark. A roll call vote was taken
and the motion passed unanimously. The following items were approved,
accepted, or referred:

STAFF AND COMMITTEE
REPORTS

A.Information requests for October and November 2005.

B.Committee activity report for October and November 2005.

C.Committee reports of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee
meetings of October 11 and November 8, 2005.

D.Committee
review of administrative regulations by the Interim Joint Committee on Local
Government during its meeting of November 16, 2005.

E.Committee review of administrative regulations by the Interim Joint
Committee on State Government during its meeting of October 11, 2005.

F.Committee review of Executive Reorganization Order 2005-891, relating to
the reorganization of the Personnel Cabinet, by the Interim Joint Committee on
State Government during its meeting of October 11, 2005.

G.Committee
review of administrative regulations by the Interim Joint Committee on Health
and Welfare during its meetings of October 19 and November 16, 2005.

H.Committee
review of FY 2006 Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant
Application by the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare during its
meeting of October 19, 2005.

I.Committee review of the Audit of the City of Georgetown by the Interim
Joint Committee on Local Government during its meeting of September 28, 2005.

J.Committee review of FY 2006-07 Temporary Assistance of Needy Families
Block Grant Application by the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare during
its meeting of November 16, 2005.

NEW BUSINESS

A.Referral of prefiled bills to the following committees: BR 430
(relating to weights and measures); BR 432 (relating to tobacco
warehouses); BR 355 (relating to recyclers); and BR 897 (relating
to agritourism) to Agriculture and Natural Resources; BR 200 (relating
to the Central Kentucky Blood Center and making an appropriation therefor); BR
210 (relating to the taxation of tobacco products, making an appropriation
therefor, and declaring an emergency); BR 377 (relating to volunteer
fire department fuel expenses); and BR 473 (relating to sales tax) to Appropriations
and Revenue; BR 211 (relating to medical malpractice insurance) and BR
805 (relating to failure to maintain security on a motor vehicle as required
by Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304) to Banking and Insurance; BR 423
(relating to tax increment financing) to Economic Development and Tourism;
BR 95 (relating to the safety, learning, and well-being of students); BR
252 (relating to employees in the Kentucky Community and Technical College
System); BR 343 (directing a study of cost of college textbooks); BR
370 (relating to the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship program
and declaring an emergency); BR 817 (relating to the primary program); and
BR 819 (relating to the primary program) to Education; BR 361
(relating to municipal power agencies) to Energy; BR 180
(relating to nursing); BR 194 (relating to health care); BR 246 (relating
to importation of prescription drugs); BR 249 (relating to the donation
of food); BR 257 (relating to Medicaid services); BR 273 (relating
to Medicaid reimbursement to decrease tobacco dependency); BR 336
(recommending that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services update the
Department for Community Based Services by employing modern technology,
business processes, and evidenced-based practice to improve customer access,
data integrity, processing accuracy, and accountability to taxpayers and the
General Assembly); and BR 489 (relating to youth smoking) to Health and
Welfare; BR 8 (relating to criminal record expungement); BR 26
(relating to jurors); BR 77 (relating to the removal of Social Security
numbers from marriage licenses); BR 112 (relating to the use of juries
in competency hearings conducted in guardianship proceedings); BR 137 (relating
to substances in the body); BR 253 (relating to the taking of private
property); BR 263 (relating to crimes and punishments); BR 305 (relating
to hardship driver’s licenses); BR 311 (relating to the taking of
private property); and BR 366 (relating to terroristic threatening) to Judiciary;
BR 152 (relating to the construction of education buildings and related
facilities); BR 368 (relating to workers’ compensation); and BR 471 (relating
to hiring persons who are not United States citizens) to Labor and Industry;
BR 407 (relating to engineers) to Licensing and Occupations; BR
89 (relating to the Firefighters Foundation Program Trust Fund); BR 233
(relating to the medical expenses of county jails); BR 244 (relating
to payments of fines, forfeitures, taxes, or fees to county clerks); BR 261
(relating to mobile and recreational vehicle parks); BR 306 (relating to
nuisances); BR 307 (relating to the compensation of municipal police
officers); and BR 462 (changing the classification of the City of
Taylorsville, in Spencer County) to Local Government; BR 435 (relating
to a school employee on active military duty); BR 437 (relating to
students called to military active duty); BR 467 (relating to members of
the military); BR 477 (relating to tax credits for supplemental military
pay); and BR 485 (relating to Kentucky National Guard and Reserve death
benefits, declaring an emergency, and making an appropriation therefor) to Seniors,
Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection; BR 126 (relating
to government contracts); BR 255 (designating the official state Daniel
Boone portrait); BR 333 (relating to state employee travel
reimbursement); BR 365 (relating to the issuance of bonds); BR 387 (relating
to the public employee health insurance program); and BR 427 (relating
to rural development) to State Government; BR 65 (relating to
traffic regulations); BR 297 (relating to speed limits); BR 340
(relating to all terrain vehicles); BR 341 (relating to the off-road
Motorcyle and ATV Commission); BR 433 (require the Transportation
Cabinet to consider the installation of cable barriers on the Gene Snyder
Freeway in Jefferson County); BR 476 (relating to graduated driver’s
licenses for teenagers); BR 824 (relating to motor vehicle operator’s license
fees); and BR 842 (relating to seat belt usage) to Transportation.

C.From Senate President David L. William and House Speaker Jody Richards:
Memorandum appointing Senator Alice Forgy Kerr as Senate Co-Chair to the Task
Force on Economic Development of the Interim Joint Committee on Economic
Development and Tourism.

D.From
Senator Robert Stivers and Representative Tanya Pullin, Co-Chairs of the
Special Subcommittee on Energy: Memorandum requesting permission for the
subcommittee to meet on Friday, December 16, 2005, in order to complete the
receipt of testimony pertaining to a natural gas issue. There are no apparent
conflicts.

COMMUNICATIONS

A.Submission of the interim report of the Kentucky Broadband Task Force as
required by 2004 House Bill 627 to Energy.

B.From the Office of the Attorney General: Constitutional Challenge
Reports for August, September, and October 2005, to Judiciary.

C.From the Teachers’ Retirement System of Kentucky: Report of activities
during the 2004-2005 fiscal year in making in-state investments, to Appropriations
and Revenue and Education.

D.From
the Cabinet for Economic Development: Local Government Economic Development
Fund Biennial Report, to Appropriation and Revenue and Economic Development
and Tourism.

E.From the Cabinet for Economic Development Finance Authority:
Construction Activity Report for July, August, and September 2005, to
Appropriation and Revenue and Economic Development and Tourism.

F.From the Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance Authority: Statement of
Assets, Liabilities, and Surplus as of September 30, 2005, to Appropriations
and Revenue and Labor and Industry.

G.From
the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet: Report for Kentucky Coal
Workers’ Pneumoconiosis Fund, Quarter Ending September 30, 2005, to
Appropriations and Revenue and Labor and Industry.

H.From
the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation: Financial Statements as
of June 30, 2005, to Appropriation and Revenue and Education.

I.From the Finance and Administration Cabinet, Office of the Controller:
Surtax Receipts Statements for the Law Enforcement and Professional
Firefighters Foundation Programs for the year-to-date activity for the periods
July 1 through September 31, 2005, and July 1 through October 31, 2005, to
Appropriations and Revenue and Local Government.

J.From the Office of the Governor: Quarterly Financial Reports for the
Governor’s Scholars Program, Inc., to Appropriations and Revenue and Education.

K.From
the Cabinet for Economic Development: The Agricultural Warehousing Sites
Cleanup Fund Annual Report for the period from July 1, 2004, through June 30,
2005, to Agriculture and Natural Resources.

L.From the Cabinet for Economic Development: Bluegrass Skills Corporation
Annual Report for activities for FY 2004-05, to Appropriation and Revenue and
Economic Development and Tourism.

M.From
the Kentucky Office of Workers’ Claims: Quarterly Report for July-September
2005, to Labor and Industry.

N.From
the Finance and Administration Cabinet: Monthly Investment Income Report for
September and October 2005, to Appropriations and Revenue.

O.From
the Personnel Cabinet: 2005 Annual Report from the Kentucky Group Health
Insurance Board, to Banking and Insurance and Health and Welfare. From the
Teachers’ Retirement System of Kentucky: 2004-05 Annual Report, to
Appropriations and Revenue and Education.

P.From the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals
with Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disorders, and Dual
Diagnosis: 2005 Annual Report, to Health and Welfare.

A.A RESOLUTION adjourning the Legislative Research Commission in loving
memory and honor of Mark Alan Fitzgerald.

B.A RESOLUTION memorializing Ralph Jackson Watts.

C.A RESOLUTION memorializing John F. “Jack” Curtin, Jr.

D.A
RESOLUTION memorializing Robert J. Wagner.

E.A RESOLUTION memorializing Jonathan “Jonny Mac” McCullough.

F.A RESOLUTION memorializing Jay Franklin Taylor.

Representative Richards pointed out the Resolution in loving
memory and honor of Mark Alan Fitzgerald, who was a former member of the House
of Representatives. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned
at 1:50 p.m.